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Jun 16, If you cut back lavender in its first year, it will put energy towards growing leaves rather than roots and this will make it a weaker plant in the long term. Once your lavender plant has had one year to establish itself, you’ll need to prune it once a year. The best time for when to prune lavender is in the spring just as the new growth is starting to come in. How to Prune Lavender. When pruning lavender, it’s important to start out with a sharp, clean set of pruning Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.
Aug 13, Pruning lavender is important because a lavender shrub that is left unpruned will become more woody more quickly. It can lose vigour and the woody stems can look straggly and unappealing.
What is more, the woody stems will be more prone to frost or water rot damage and disease, and can crack or break more stumpchop.clubted Reading Time: 7 mins. Oct 01, In late summer when lavender flowers start to fade, a full pruning will keep the plants looking fresh and stumpchop.club this video, our plant doctor Helen show Missing: Fontana CA.
Jun 15, The plant cannot produce new growth from the woody parts. When you’re pruning woody lavender plants, it’s also a good idea not to prune all of the plant at the same time. Instead, work slowly, trimming back each branch, but never cutting into the brown wood. You can trim branches back by one-third or stumpchop.clubg: Fontana CA. Jan 13, Summer is the main time to prune lavender plants after the flower harvest. Cut back up to one-third of the leafy section of the stems, shaping the lavender into an evenly rounded mound as you prune.
To create the mounding shape, cut the outer stems a little shorter than the middle stems. Avoid cutting into the woody stem stumpchop.clubg: Fontana CA.